Weekend

The word ‘reason’, like ‘natural’ and ‘common sense’, often alerts us to a hidden agenda

As Irish households get used to retaining empty receptacles, smaller producers raise concerns about the workload

How much time we spend talking about climate change measures may be key to better understanding

Prior to streaming, the trailer for Amazon Prime’s adaptation of Ryan Howard’s novel 56 Days had more than 78m views. It’s a ‘fever dream’ for her

As people feel the need to pay social media tribute when a celebrity dies it’s impossible not to feel that the idea of sombre remembrance has been corrupted

Legal Irish-born immigrants still live with an underlying sense of fear as Ice increases the scope of its raids

The estate, which runs alongside the Border in Co Monaghan, has borne the Leslie name for 400 years and is ‘part and parcel of the community’

Éanna Ní Lamhna replies to readers’ questions and observations

As Clare and Tipperary people know, Ireland has become a country of sprawl, of suburbs creeping into countryside and towns and villages choked with traffic

Donna Hughes Brown was detained by Ice officials at Chicago airport when returning home from Ireland last July. Now she has a list of people she is fighting for

With this native tree threatened by overgrazing, experts have set up a clone bank in Co Wexford

Government has already announced trial of ‘digital wallet’ age verification mechanism for accessing platforms

In most situations, data promotes safety only when someone knows what to do about it

With food prices escalating as they are, freezing eggs for a year could even be an act of financial hedging

In a culture that treats bodies as projects to be improved, the idea of simply caring for them feels almost radical

The Irish singer on her happiest times, being haunted by memories of working on the bog, and how the death of her father changed her

It’s the last Irish tour and the end of an era for the national treasure as she prepares to take her final bow

As people in Ireland settle down later than ever, more people in their 40s and 50s are turning to apps to find love online

More than 70 languages are spoken in Ireland and the Mother Tongues festival is helping pass them on to the next generation

Four-hundred photographs from veteran photojournalist Declan Doherty are on exhibition in Donegal

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on a migrant insect, a native dipper, and a toothy-looking animal horn

An artist’s alliance says changes to the pilot scheme are causing ‘enormous distress’ among current recipients

Lichens can survive nearly everything - even long periods in outer space - but pollution will kill them

Economies grow when banks lend money, but ours have become glorified safe deposit boxes

Choosing from a menu of deficits for your hair, skin and body is not freedom

The #2MinuteBeachClean is a simple idea – take just two minutes to pick up litter when at the beach

For Fianna Fáil senator Teresa Costello, early diagnosis of her breast cancer may have been ‘the difference between life and death’

Paul Cullen: I have always known I was adopted, but my early years – unrecorded, unremembered – were one big void

Award-winning Irish soprano on her two middle names, her happiest times and her biggest career regret

At a ring fort, St Brigid crosses sway in an ancient tree and guides share stories of Imbolc, healing and renewal

Third hearing of Burke’s appeal over dismissal now seems likely

Michael Denninger used money from his confirmation to travel from Coburg to Clare in 1980

Michael Hopkins was let down by the Irish system as a child and the British system as an elderly bachelor. Then he met a photographer at a bus stop

The message is clear: climate change should be prioritised as a security crisis, not just an environmental one

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on kelp, Bootlace Fungus and Pelican’s Foot Shells

Bitcoin promoters sometimes portray price spikes as evidence it is money - in fact the opposite is true

The housing crisis, underreporting of numbers and confusion over local authority housing rules mean those fleeing violence risk homelessness

Driving everywhere is doing us no good

The adults in my life had cause to doubt my word, because I did a lot of imagining and I wasn’t always sure what I’d made up

While researching my new novel, I became fascinated with the people who chose to join a group whose belief system and way of life were at odds with so much of Irish society’s standards